In this visual dialogue, Corinne Malfreyt explores the dual essence of Loïe Fuller’s dance — the revealing and the concealing act. Her brush, like Fuller’s silk, folds light into form and dissolves the body into color. The paint seems to breathe, as if the figure itself is performing beneath layers of luminous fabric. These paintings trace that instant when dance turns into atmosphere — when energy becomes visible.
Original Dance Paintings
When Painting Moves
French artist Corinne Malfreyt explores the dialogue between dance, paint, and human emotion.
Original Dance Inspired Paintings
Corinne Malfreyt paints as if performing a choreography. Her dancers move between opacity and light, echoing the theatrical worlds of Pina Bausch, the studies of Eadweard Muybridge, and the spectral energy of Loïe Fuller. Each work carries the memory of movement — a gesture caught mid-transition, suspended in pigment.
Every painting is original, signed, and certified. Created in France. Curated by Dance Artworks Gallery.
Tanztheater and the Burgundy World of Pina Bausch
Each painting unfolds as a fragment of a performance. The crimson palette and layered textures echo the rhythm of Pina Bausch’s dance theatre — where emotion moves before the body does. Malfreyt’s brushstrokes capture that liminal instant between gesture and stillness, between solitude and connection. Her work becomes both a stage and a witness to the choreography of being human.
Contemporary Movement Studies in Paint
In this series, Corinne Malfreyt translates motion into pure visual rhythm. Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic motion experiments, her canvases explore the space between image and sensation — where the body becomes both trace and texture. Through layered impasto and high-contrast tonality, she paints the velocity of emotion. Each gesture, suspended in dark light, becomes a fragment of choreography: the painted body as movement made visible. The result is a visual study that merges Muybridge’s analytical precision with the freedom of contemporary abstraction.
Blanc sur Blanc — Dance and Light in White Painting
In Blanc sur Blanc, Corinne Malfreyt strips her choreographic universe to its most essential form. The expressive density of her earlier works yields to an ascetic calm, where form and void dance together. Using subtle layers of white, ivory, and muted ochre, she explores how light itself can choreograph emotion. Each canvas reads like a breath — a suspension between memory and renewal, echoing the final bow of a performance when motion becomes pure radiance.
Loïe Fuller — The Dance of Luminosity
Corinne Malfreyt reimagines Loïe Fuller’s luminous theatre through paint. In these works, the dancer’s fabric, once alive under gaslight, becomes a fluid architecture of colour and motion. Each figure dissolves into its own radiance — a study in transformation, where gesture turns to atmosphere and movement becomes visible. Malfreyt paints not the dancer, but the pulse of light itself.
Dévoilement et Enveloppement — The Serpentine Motion of Loïe Fuller
Loïe l’hiver
Loïe nuit d’été
Original Painting
Le Tourbillon de la Vie | Original Painting by Corinne Malfreyt (120×100 cm | 47.2×39.4 in)
$5,356.00
Le Tourbillon de la Vie — The Whirlwind of Life
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 120 × 100 cm | 47.2 × 39.4 in
In Le Tourbillon de la Vie, the French painter Corinne Malfreyt captures the tension between control and surrender that defines both dance and existence. The canvas revolves around a central burst of ochre and white, as if movement itself were spiraling through the pigment. Her brushwork oscillates between velocity and restraint, evoking the endless renewal that follows every fall, every motion.
Base Price
€3600
Edition Size
Original Painting 1/1
Delivery Time
1-2 weeks
Framing Options
Available upon request
Placed within an interior, its circular composition radiates vitality, making it ideal for luminous contemporary spaces where stillness meets flow.
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A Choreography in Paint - Curator's Note
Each canvas in this collection forms part of a living choreography.
Through gesture and pigment, Corinne Malfreyt transforms motion into memory — where the ephemeral grace of dance finds permanence on canvas.
Her world is inhabited by Loïe Fuller’s luminous veils, Pina Bausch’s theatrical intimacy, and Muybridge’s captured cadence. Across oil and acrylic textures, bodies dissolve into rhythm, emotion, and shadow.
Presented by Dance Artworks Gallery, these original paintings mark a meeting point between two arts: the choreography of the body and the choreography of paint.
Collectors are invited to experience them not only as visual works, but as echoes of movement — singular, original, and available to acquire directly through the gallery.
Own an Original Painting by Corinne Malfreyt.
Secure purchase, international shipping, and artist hand-signed certificate of authenticity included.
